TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. clearcut/clear-cut, smoking-room/smoking room, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Formatting: abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings.
Add ToC.
Change five instances of Alymer to Aylmer.
[Chapter Two]
Change “she had one accomplishment; she was a spendid dancer” to splendid.
[Chapter Three]
“He felt it would have have been a serious reflection” delete one have.
“He’s neither one thing nor the other neither a ladies’ man nor a man’s man.” add a comma after other.
[Chapter Five]
“very plaintly had hinted that she was not indifferent to him” to plainly.
[Chapter Six]
“when he had suggested the Berkley or the Savoy” to Berkeley.
[Chapter Seven]
“One shuts onself up like a recluse, excludes commonplace persons” to oneself.
[Chapter Nine]
“with the one exception of the ungenial Martin” to Martyn.
[Chapter Ten]
(“No he had not taken her into his confidence.) add a comma after No.
[Chapter Twelve]
(through the swinging doors “Our quick-change artist is going) add a comma after doors.
[Chapter Fourteen]
“the clue was to slight to be of any use” to too.
[Chapter Eighteen]
“A third party would remove the awkardness inseparable from the” to awkwardness.
(“Hush! I hear his footstep coming down the staircase.) to footsteps.
[Chapter Twenty]
“my friends would say of me that I’m a pretty ‘cute one’ ” to ’cute.
“The finger-prints on the tumbler co-incided in every detail” to coincided.
[Chapter Twenty-One]
(“When I do, you will not have to complain of my lack candor.”) add of after lack.
“I had hoped to escape them altogther, but I had mistimed” to altogether.
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